Aportes de la Educación Religiosa y la Pastoral Educativa a la Formación Integral en la Escuela

Abstract

The pedagogical practice faces several challenges each school year, specially in Colombia which Constitution defines it as a pluralistic state. The aim of this research is to contrast the paradigms of the Colombian religious education. In order to present a wider perspective of the pastoral education which recognizes the diversity of religious in Colombia. In addition, it includes an open dialogue between the different religions and points of view that embraces an integral education which develops students’ social skills for their daily lives. As a methodology, this documentary research used the qualitative approach to try to fully understand what was investigated from its complexity, also, the hermeneutic epistemological perspective that was carried out in it allowed a reflective process of the knowledge obtained and the appropriation of the context, finding meaning and depth to what is interpreted from articles and books that referred to pedagogical practices of religious education. It was found with this theoretical foundation significant contributions that both the educational pastoral and the pedagogical practices make to the integral formation of the person in the school.